Example sentences of "come [adv] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But after all , he had come far in the last few months . |
| 2 | Donna shivered and decided to head back to the car , not even sure why she had come here in the first place . |
| 3 | A thousand people have come here in the last year and another thousand are expected in the next year . |
| 4 | ‘ I did n't ask you to come here in the first place , and I certainly did n't ask for your help out here . |
| 5 | The possibility of getting that accommodation encourages many refugees to come here in the first place . |
| 6 | I was confident I could wear her down eventually , but I certainly never expected her to come across at the first time of asking . |
| 7 | However , he would n't be surprised if it was announced at DECUS in Cannes in September and first shipments came right after the first of the year . |
| 8 | It was on this trip that a remarkable partnership came together for the first time . |
| 9 | Four of the five protagonists of this story — Greco-Macedonians , Romans , Jews and Celts — came together for the first time in the Hellenistic period . |
| 10 | However , the worst outrage on Fox Hill came only after the Second World War , when horrid concrete housing was plonked on the top . |
| 11 | Susan came downstairs for the first time on Christmas Eve , and was genuinely delighted to see how pretty Breeze had made the sombre old dining-room . |
| 12 | The race was really on now , and as the quartet came away from the third last and turned into the straight Desert Orchid suddenly had a fight on his hands — not from Ten of Spades , who had exhausted himself in drawing the grey 's sting and now fell heavily at the second last , but from Toby Tobias and Norton 's Coin . |
| 13 | I should say that I , I came away from the last meeting with an enormous list of things to do , and I have n't managed to do them all , but they 'll emerge as we go through , erm , developments Perth , Perth if inter interrupt me |
| 14 | During the visit , which came shortly after the 50th anniversary of the start of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union ( " Operation Barbarossa " ) on June 22 , 1941 [ see pp. 4667-69 ] , both leaders confirmed their countries ' friendship . |
| 15 | The crunch came early in the next year . |
| 16 | He took avoiding action but came close to a third . |
| 17 | They held on , kept Millwall out ; came close to a fourth but that would have flattered Swindon : 3-1 and a happy new year at the county ground . |
| 18 | The only goal came midway through the second half . |
| 19 | One goal was good enough … it came midway through the second half … skipper Andy Melville ran it in and ran off to celebrate … |
| 20 | The winner came midway through the second half . |
| 21 | We came here on the ninth of June nineteen fifty . |
| 22 | At about this time , the BBC offered him a World Service job based in London and , at the age of 30 , he came here for the first time . |
| 23 | But the lifts of the pen came regularly at every fourth letter — Middlemass had never found a forger who remembered to vary the interval at which he lifted pen from paper — and the dot above the i , high and slightly to the left , and the over-emphatic apostrophe were almost a trade-mark . |
| 24 | Reward came immediately with the first of 21 caps . |
| 25 | She came across for the first time today , I was out egg yard getting some eggs |
| 26 | And another good old word is the crome , now er that was one I came across for the first time when I came into Suffolk , the crome . |
| 27 | But what does amaze me , is the reason why this motion came forward in the first place . |
| 28 | Trying to mould together a side in only four days with eight players coming together for the first time is a pretty difficult task . |
| 29 | In early July the waiting was broken by the excitement of Maggie coming home for the first time since she had left for London . |
| 30 | His father had been ‘ under the weather , since July , and Lewis was half-aware that he might be coming home for the last time . |